Clarkson University Students Receive Power Engineering Scholarship

Clarkson University Senior Jonathan R. Bower and Sophomore Jack Garrett have both received a Power and Energy Society Scholarship from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Bower, an Electrical Engineering major with a Power Engineering Concentration, and Garrett, also an Electrical Engineering major with a Concentration in Power, and Minors in Project Management, Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering and Math, are two of only 174 award recipients from 95 schools across the U.S. and Canada.

The goal of the Scholarship Plus Initiative is to encourage undergraduate students to pursue careers in power and energy engineering. The program facilitates internships in the industry and mentoring, as well as special recognition as a PES Scholar.

Bower has experience as a Protection and Control Engineer Intern at Rochester Gas & Electric + Substation Engineering Intern at O’Connell Electric and is the Founder and Chair of the Power and Energy Society student branch at Clarkson University.

Garrett also received the John W. Estey Outstanding Scholar award for IEEE Region 1, one of only seven recipients across the U.S. and Canada. He has spent time as a Solar Design Engineering Intern at GE Solar, conducting Biometric Software Research at Clarkson, as a Facilities Electrical Engineering Intern at Intel and as both an Electrical Design Engineering and Project Design and Engineering Intern with Tesla.

Garrett, in part, credits the professors he and Bower have learned from while at Clarkson for helping them earn the award.

“While Jon and I are two good students that earned these scholarships, we couldn't have done it without the great Clarkson faculty like Professors Ortmeyer and Robinson,” Garrett said.

As a private, national research university, Clarkson is a leader in technological education and sustainable economic development through teaching, scholarship, research and innovation. We ignite personal connections across academic fields and industries to create the entrepreneurial mindset, knowledge and intellectual curiosity needed to innovate world-relevant solutions and cultivate the leaders of tomorrow. With its main campus located in Potsdam, N.Y., and additional graduate program and research facilities in the New York Capital Region, Beacon, N.Y., and New York City, Clarkson educates 4,300 students across 95 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, the arts, education, sciences and health professions. Our alumni earn salaries that are among the top 2.5% in the nation and realize accelerated career growth. One in five already leads as a CEO, senior executive or owner of a company.